Subj : Re: BBSing opportunties
To   : McDoob
From : Avon
Date : Tue Dec 21 2021 03:52 pm

On 18 Dec 2021 at 11:11p, McDoob pondered and said...
 
 Mc>  Av> How best to get packets around a country or between countries without
 Mc>  Av> Internet to carry them? <-- open question for anyone really...

 Mc> First thing that comes to mind is packet radio. Hams have been using this
 Mc> protocol since 1980.
 Mc> Naturally, such a method of transmission would be severely rate-limited,
 Mc> on the order of 10 kbit/s or less (less than 20% of the speed of ye olde
 Mc> 56k modem) even with good reception. Good luck watching YouTube on that!

Yes this is an area of interest and has been for some time. I have never actually taken steps to try to get such a thing working though. For some reason it always felt hard to do, probably much more so that it is. I'm a licensed amateur operator, not that active and where I am it's mostly VHF and UHF stuff... I have not done much with packet but yep, need to make some time to do so.

The other thing with this mode is it's rather limited to who can get on the air / use the frequencies and if done well is still probably limited to within a city or across a country using repeater networks... still that's better than nothing for sure :)

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